Video Game Trivia
From Pong and Pac-Man to open worlds and battle royales. These questions cover the characters, consoles, studios and franchises that shaped gaming — for players who know their lore.
Type the name yourself; typos are forgiven. Each question ends with a short fact from gaming history.
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- 55medium
- 80hard
What's covered
- Arcade classics
- Nintendo
- Consoles
- Characters
- Franchises
- Game studios
Video Game Trivia: sample questions
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- easy
Bandai's 1996 egg-shaped keychain toy required owners to feed it, play with it, and clean up after it to keep its digital creature alive. What was this device called?
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Tamagotchi
The name Tamagotchi blends the Japanese words for 'egg' (tamago) and 'watch' (uotchi/wotchi), nodding to both its shape and its wristwatch-like keychain form.
- easy
What power-up item in Mario games instantly doubles Mario's size when he touches it?
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Super Mushroom
The Super Mushroom also acts as a shield of sorts: if Mario is hit while enlarged, he shrinks back down instead of losing a life.
- medium
What digital storefront and library client, made by Valve, is famous for its seasonal sales on PC games?
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Steam
Steam launched in September 2003 to auto-update Valve's own games, and by 2013 it controlled about 75% of the PC digital game market.
- medium
In the online multiplayer game Among Us, what is the name of the secret saboteur role whose goal is to kill the rest of the crew or sabotage the ship undetected?
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Impostor
A lobby can have one to three of these secret saboteurs, randomly assigned when the game begins.
- hard
What was the name of the first commercially sold coin-operated arcade video game, released by Nutting Associates in 1971 and created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney?
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Computer Space
Its gameplay was adapted from Spacewar!, a game originally built to run on university mainframe computers in the 1960s.
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